Broadband connection problem.

[myanke2004]

Every 12 hours I have to reboot my computer in order to reestablish my cable broadband connection. It is supposed to be live all of the time.

When I click on the Network Connections>Local Area Connections>Local Area Connections Status>Details I see this:

Lease Obtained 11/14/2004 2:23:58 PM
Lease Expires 11/15/2004 2:23:58 AM

So at 2:23 and 58 seconds in the morning my connection will terminate. How can I change this?

My ISP says that everything is okay on their end. I have tried clicking on the "repair" Local Area Connection button but it says nothing is wrong.

Can the "lease" be changed to next year or I would even be happy with 30 days from now? I have been told that there might be a registry entry that I can change but I have no idea what that might be. Please help, my sanity is hanging in the balance.

Thanks,

I am running Windows XP

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[juniper]

you cant control the lease time as this is done at the DHCP server of your ISP, you should however not loose your IP when it expires it should request a new lease on its own. instead of rebooting your computer when you cant get on do a ipconfig and see what it says? then do a ipconfig /renew and see if it starts working again.

tell me what happens after each scenario.

[FastLearner]

For some reason your DHCP server is "abandoning" your lease and not replacing it with a new one. If you want what may be a quick fix, try assigning yourself a static IP address. Otherwise, you will most likely have to go through some hoops with your ISP.

Disclaimer: I am relatively new to this, so please wait for others to respond before trying anything that I may recommend!

Here is a short definition of the two types of layer 3 addresses:

Abandoned Leases:
Abandoned leases are reclaimed automatically. When a client asks for a new address, and the server finds that there are no addresses available, it checks to see if there are any abandoned leases. The server allocates the oldest abandoned lease. The standard procedures for checking for lease address conflicts are still followed, so if the abandoned lease's IP address is still in use, it is reabandoned.

If a client requests an abandoned address, the server assumes that the address was abandoned because the lease file was corrupted, and that the client is the machine that responded when the lease was pinged, causing it to be abandoned. In that case, the address is immediately assigned to the requesting client.

Static Leases:
Leases that are given to clients for statically assigned IP addresses are treated differently than those for dynamically assigned IP addresses. An address is statically assigned by using a host declaration with a fixed-address statement.

Static lease information is not saved by the DHCP server. This means that they are not recorded in the lease file (DHCPD.LEASES). If your configuration uses only statically assigned IP addresses, you will not see any entries in the lease file.

Retrieved from http://vms.process.com/ftp/TCPWARE/DOCUMENTATION/HTML/MANAGEMENT/CH04.HTM#E54E23

[FrankSG]

do a ipconfig /renew and see if it starts working again.

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I also have a broad-band connection and this has been happening to me, too. It used to happen only very seldom, but starting about two or three weeks ago it happens very frequently. I used to reboot in order to get a connection restored. But a friend of mine told me about the ipconfig, so this is exactly what I do now and it works. Why it's happening so often, I don't know, but doing the ipconfig is better than rebooting. I have Windows XP, but if you have a different operating system, you may need a different command. For Win98, I think it's winipcfg.

[PrntRhd]

FrankSG:
For Win98, I think it's winipcfg.
No, the command is ipconfig for 98.
The winipcfg is for Win95.

Who says Net+ is worthless........lol.
:p

[FrankSG]

FrankSG:

No, the command is ipconfig for 98.
The winipcfg is for Win95.

Who says Net+ is worthless........lol.
:p
Wow! My notes must be older than I thought. I had winipcfg written down in my notes thinking it was when I had Win98. It must have been when I was using 95. Time goes by fast. Maybe I ought to throw away my DOS notes. :)

[pave_spectre]

winipcfg does work in 98 and 98se.

My parents still have 98se and I have used winipcfg many times.

[PrntRhd]

Arggghhh!

So much for that textbook, experience is better.
Thanks Pave.
;)

[pop pop]

DOS??? Doesn't that mean 2 in Espanol? ;)

[Paleo Pete]

Pave is correct, winipcgf is the command used by win98, I too have used it many times, and several times very recently.

PrntRhd: Textbooks aren't always 100% correct, unfortunately. Actually, I'm surprised you missed that one, long as you've been hanging around this crew...but on a more positive note, you don't miss many...

[juniper]

ipconfig and winipcfg can be used on most win98 OSs only winipcfg is used on 95, But anyway if your computer can not reach the DHCP server for any reason during the retry time say they are doing maintenance whatever then it will not renew unless you are getting an APIPA address at which it should keep trying every 5 minutes I believe. The quick and dirty fix to this is to write a batch file that does an ipconfig /renew and have your task schedulere run it at 3:00 am.